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Quantum Anomalies in Dense Matter
D. T. Son, A. R. Zhitnitsky
We consider the effects of quantum anomalies involving the baryon current for high-density matter. In the effective Lagrangian, the anomaly terms describe the interaction of three…
Instanton interactions in dense-matter QCD
D. T. Son, M. A. Stephanov, A. R. Zhitnitsky
A Coulomb gas representation of dense-matter QCD is derived from a dual transformation of the low-energy effective Lagrangian. The point-like charges Q=+1,-1 of the gas are identif…
Primordial Galactic Magnetic Fields: An Application of QCD Domain Walls
Michael McNeil Forbes, Ariel R. Zhitnitsky
We present a mechanism for generating primordial magnetic fields with large correlation lengths on the order of 100 kpc today. The mechanism is based on recently conjectured QCD do…
Primordial Galactic Magnetic Fields from the QCD Phase Transition
Michael McNeil Forbes, Ariel R. Zhitnitsky
In this paper, we propose a mechanism to generate large-scale magnetic fields with correlations lengths of 100 kpc. Domain walls with QCD scale internal structure form and coalesce…
Signatures of the Induced vacuum state in Heavy Ion Collisions
Ariel Zhitnitsky
It was argued recently that, in general, an arbitrary induced theta vacuum state would be created in the heavy ion collisions, similar to the creation of the disoriented chiral con…
Monopoles and Coulomb Gas Representation of the QCD Effective Lagrangian
Sebastian Jaimungal, Ariel R. Zhitnitsky
A novel Coulomb gas (CG) description of low energy QCD_4(N_c) is constructed. The construction is based on the dual transformation of the QCD effective Lagrangian. By considering a…